the nation is rife the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera i really felt liberated as a journalist was. going to the pros as i would guess that's what this jobs bill. seen as a holy city by the three major monotheistic religions jerusalem has been contested for centuries al-jazeera brings you a special program about the status of jerusalem and its importance with our correspondents across the palestinian territories and opinions from around the world we explore the reality on the ground and the impact the u.s. has intention to move its embassy to jerusalem will have on the peace process the holy land on al-jazeera.

this is zero. zero zero m. c. test and this is the news hour live from london coming up. the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process the palestinian president condemns the u.s. after the u.n. rejects donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel spain's prime minister turned down an offer from catalonia ousted leader to meet a after separatist parties retained a slim majority in thursday's reelection. warring parties in south sudan signed a ceasefire deal allowing humanitarian access to civilians and apple faces lawsuits in the u.s. making it deliberately slow down older models of the i phone. and on peter stammered in doha with the latest sports news we host nation kuwait lose their

opening twenty seventeen gulf cup match to saudi arabia that and more later this news hour. palestine's president says his country won't accept any. the u.s. back to middle east peace plan mahmoud abbas was reinforcing his position after the u.n. rejected president chums decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital of ass also urged france and europe to step up and play a bigger role in peace efforts after meeting the french president in paris that's actually has more from there. it was no surprise that the palestinian leader greeted the french president warmly as he arrived at the elise a palace emanuel mark karr has been a staunch critic of the united states' decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel after talks on the crisis mahmoud abbas's said the palestinians could no longer accept a u.s.

peace plan. the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties and failing and because of this violation of international law. mccraw has stepped up efforts to mediate in the crisis meeting with the king of jordan and israel's prime minister earlier this month he wants to try and help revive talks but he has ruled out unilaterally recognizing palestine as the state saying it would be unhelpful at this time these americans and the americans have marginalized themselves and i'm trying not to do the same thing that i think france's credibility lies in taking a position as we have today where we can talk to everyone emanuel michael says he's using france's position as a country that has good relations with all sides to try and help and with the palestinians there longer considering the u.s. as an honest broker it could leave the door open for france to play

a greater role. through what we've seen as a manual macron getting really involved even of this is a very sensitive situation is much at stake france's position is difficult but macron to really looking to restore the rants once ahead and put it on the national stage much the decision by the u.s. on driessen continues to draw international condemnation thursday more than one hundred twenty countries including france back to u.n. resolution demanding washington withdraw its decision and across the world politicians continue to voice their concerns. japan supports the position that the conflict between israel and palestine should be resolved between them including the sharing of the final status of jerusalem. great importance to the police time issue because with things palestinians also absolute to reach rights to establish their own country. malaysia's prime minister led

a protest in the administrative capital putrajaya on the. macro says he has no plans for a french peace initiative he says he's waiting to see what the u.s. has to offer but with the palestinians ruling out washington's unfoldment france and the european union could be called upon to fill the gap. al-jazeera paris. meanwhile in gaza israeli forces fired tear gas at angry protesters during what palestinian leaders are calling a day of rage welcome weapons more on those demonstrations border with israel the gaza cities just a couple of hundred meters over there the border with israel just about one hundred meters over there and for hours all afternoon a crowd of dozens of protesters have been trying to get as close as they can to the fence trying to plant palestinian flags and throwing stones and the israeli soldiers along the fence retaliated with some gunfire and many volleys of tear gas

has been a lot of tear gas the al-jazeera teams breathe a lot of it this is one of about six places along the separation wall in the fence that goes around gaza where these kinds of clashes been happening similar to what happened last friday and the friday before the third day of rage palestinian leaders with different factions that have described it and part of the ongoing series of protests that happened ever since president trump announced on the sixth of december that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. phyllis bennis is the program director of the new interest internationalism project at the institute for policy studies and she joins us live from washington d.c. thanks very much for joining us on al-jazeera i just ask you first of all about the point that the palestinian president has said now they're not listening to any kind of peace plan that the u.s. might be bringing in of course the one jarrad christian is supposed to be about to unveil in the new year i guess is the will now talking about it's

a real chance they could be shooting themselves in the foot here with that because of course with so much international backing almost has the u.s. on the back votes. no i don't think that they're shooting themselves in the foot as you put it i think this is a long overdue recognition by the palestinian leadership of a position long held by the majority of palestinian people which is that the united states has never been an honest broker it wasn't twenty five years ago it wasn't twenty years ago it hasn't been under any of these administrations and it isn't now so the deal that was being proposed by the u.s. in these negotiations between jared cushion or and the crown prince of saudi arabia had far more to do with building a an anti iran coalition in the middle east that would involve both saudi arabia and israel hopefully normalizing in their view and they wanted to put into place something that would make that politically acceptable it was a kind of a set of parameters that no palestinian leader would have been able to accept it

included explicitly a noncontiguous statelet the the capital would be probably outside of jerusalem in a in a little village called outside of the city of jerusalem it would not have any kind of sovereignty over its air over its water over landing rights over control of its own borders it would not be a state at all that was going to be the u.s. parameters it would never have been accepted and going through the motions of it simply kicks the issue down the road i think what we're looking at here is a moment when the palestinian leadership has been forced to acknowledge what has long been the position of the population which is that the u.s. has no intention of bringing israel to the table on any serious human rights respecting international law respecting u.n. resolution respecting proposal so also given that it's time to see what other options might be out there alone not what other options obviously we've seen

president speaking alongside the palestinian president but other names countries that have been muted because there are delegations been sent from palestine and of course china and russia who would your money beyond to fill this void that the u.s. media mediator is going to leave behind. i think it's a huge mistake to say that there is going to be a single country acting as a mediator the european union collectively may have a role to play they have very strong economic pressures they could bring to bear on israel to end its occupation of palestinian land and stop the settlements the united nations is where negotiation should reside by international law according to un resolutions themselves it should not be left into the hands of any one government and it also means that governments have to get over this notion of saying there's going to be a two state solution there is no other option there are other options it certainly isn't up to me to say whether it's going to be one state or two state red state

blue state that's not the issue here the issue is how do we get a solution that's based on justice that's based on equality for all whether it's within one state or within two states and between two states if there are two this is a situation today of apartheid you have one territory what is now israel the west bank and gaza and occupied east jerusalem all constituting one territory under the control of one government the israeli government and israeli military ruled by two different legal systems for two different populations and that difference which legal system whether the military justice system which means in justice or the civilian justice system which one is determined by race ethnicity language religion that's the definition of apartheid in international law the question of how you deal with apartheid is not necessarily you divide that one state into two it could also mean a long political battle for civil rights equality and against apartheid similar to

what was done in south africa that's an option that some palestinians are calling for again it's not up to me to choose but it is important that we recognize that there are options when you have a situation where six hundred fifty thousand illegal israeli settlers are now. living in the occupied west bank in occupied east jerusalem that's not a viable situation and of course for a mediator to be able to step in as you talk about the other the other side the other party has to come to the table as well who would israel accept as somebody that could help bring the two together having so used to having this enormous powerful power of the u.s. on its shoulder. i think at the moment there is no other power that israel would like to come to the table with the problem we have to recognize is that for israel the status quo is quite sustainable for all the rhetoric that we hear the status

quo is simply not sustainable for israel the status quo is completely sustainable for palestinians it is not it's palestinians who are dying again today two more people have been killed in gaza and the one who wants to say that gaza is not occupied by israel because that one point they pulled the troops out now the troops are simply firing over the fence and killing palestinians in gaza that's occupation it means control so i think that we have to get away from this notion of what country is going to come to the table under whose auspices we need an entirely different system here palestinians themselves are going to lead it and it may be that they lead in a direction that says our struggle is for equality and the issue of how many states is simply not the most important question always good to get your interpretation for the spanish thank you so much for joining us on al-jazeera. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour the main powers backing is syria's warring sides push for another round of talks to end six years of civil war. and peruse president survives

an impeachment vote over corruption allegations. plus in sport the countdown is on to be one of the biggest games in football details with peter coming up. the spanish prime minister has rejected a call by catalonia ousted leader. to hold talks after separatists parties won a slim majority in thursday's regional election but mariano rajoy has suggested he's open to future dialogue and says the next council and government a suspect the law paul brennan reports from the us alone. when all sides claim victory who actually wins it's a question cattle lands are asking themselves today. winning thirty seven problem entry seats the turning is biggest single party is now the citizens party progun

a team leader in the us i don't mind us. but the three main secessionist parties together one seventy seats and so they hold the parliamentary majority council only has deposed president carlos priest or more celebrated in brussels where he'd fled to avoid arrest on sedition charges and he's made a new offer to the government in madrid and i get sent eaglesham one should just dig that out about i'm willing to meet prime minister avoid brussels or any other european state that is in spain about brazil obvious reasons i'm willing to do it so that we can address this new political era starting in catalonia spain and europe it is an era presided over by political solutions not by common repression that we find ourselves in by now. the response today from the spanish government suggests dialogue might just be possible that new york given the person i would

need to sit down with is the winner of the election and that's mr. i will make an effort to maintain a dialogue with whatever government comes out of these elections but as i've said before i will also ensure that we follow the law. on polling day voters of all sides spoke to us about wanting a return to normality with the results now in a straw poll of barcelona citizens found dissatisfaction with the outcome. without favoring one side or another i think they've hurt catalonia a lot with this independence issue. i think that the citizens party which one doesn't represent the majority of catalans i think the majority of people favor the probably independence party. i don't think it's a good result the lift just parties have been marginalized and i don't see a solution for the differences between two clear blocks. so for now the spotlight

appears to be on the attitude of the new catalan government i would say they will slightly step back this doesn't mean that they are announced today independence more but they will i think they got softer approach first because they were slightly less than fifty percent of the balls and they think that's important second because they're hard line by the chinese government in this elections have produced a rather messy outcome with both sides able to take positives from the results but neither side able to land the kind of knockout blow that they might have hoped for everything now depends on the succession this bloc and whether they will choose confrontation with madrid or compromise. al-jazeera barcelona. hole now joins us live from outside the council in parliament and barcelona call this vote was supposed to sort things out this was supposed to be the end of this political crisis what do you think is going to happen next that can bring the two

sides together. will certainly it was the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy boys political gamble that calling these snap elections and dissolving the old catalan parliament could draw a line and effectively undermine the secessionist movement but that gamble has soundly backfired because once again the procession bodies have renewed damage already in the capital and column and now last we heard in pools report there yes the colace pushed him on from belgium where he's in self-imposed exile so a said to mr rajoy let's talk mr raffle is turned around and said why should i talk to you you're not even the head of the capital and government right now and then mr ruff was going on to say i am prepared to talk but within the framework of the law the devil is in the detail lead because what missed that out for you means is that

he will not talk about secession because he is always maintained that secession and even the very talk of secession is outside the framework of the law essentially what mr hoyer is trying to do is to say yes ok my gamble has backfired but you still must respect my initial decision which is that catalonia cannot break away that is what effectively is setting the scene for continued confrontation because neither side really is any closer than they were not toba to sitting down and talking seriously about how they can be a way out of this crisis so i was actually mean to governing the area first of all of course madrid took back direct rule is that switched back again and what about the the those. either in exile or in jail do they now get to take their sentence. well absolutely you've hit the nail on the head there i mean there really is not

too much precedent for this kind of situation anywhere in western europe and in spain well back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven there was a precedent for a single candidate in the basque parliament being taken by police to be sworn in to the basque parliament while he was awaiting trial but in this case we've got at least five candidates who have been elected by democratic means and according to mr loud voice group who are in self-imposed exile there under threat of arrest if they step foot back in the country there are at least three other candidates who are in jail right now charged with rebellion and there are many more candidates who are out on bail pending trial who could be locked up at any stage that situation is really a mess it throws up the question are we going to see the spanish police transparent democratically elected candidates in polies vans to be sworn into their seats in parliament before being led back off to jail this is certainly not an image the

spanish central government would want to project but nevertheless this seems to be the way that we're heading the other issue is possibly that if. the spanish prime minister is not liking what he hears from the process session parliament spun the procession polities he could effectively say we are not going to allow that particular coalition of parties to take down the catalan parliament and could even call the new elections very complex but i would guess that we're not going to find any results about how the way forward there until at least mid january so good to get your thoughts on hold speaking to us live from barcelona. russia iran and turkey have announced deals covering. exchanges and d. mining in syria the agreements were made during talks that have been held in kazakhstan russia and iran the syrian government in the civil war while turkey

supports some major rebel groups ever going to meet again in the russian city of sochi on january the twenty ninth with the aim of bringing both the syrian government and the opposition to the negotiating table u.s. president on a tramp has signed his government's tax reform bill into law the one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill was approved by congress on wednesday making it the biggest overhaul of the u.s. tax system in thirty years it will repeal some parts of obamacare and offers big tax cuts for businesses it's trump's first major legislative victory of his first year in office. meanwhile transformer campaign manager has reportedly been asked to testify at an investigation into russian meddling in last year's election it's understood a congressional panel will question steve bannon you know early january on the alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia and then also served as president tom's top white house strategist before being fired in august

the u.n. security council is debating a resolution targeting north korea's fuel imports the pressure proposed by the u.s. would ban nearly ninety percent of refined petroleum products exports to pyongyang tensions are high on the korean peninsula after king john government we conducted a number of missile tests this year drawing international condemnation and tough sanctions. mike hanna is live for us now at the united nations so mike there debating i believe now just give us a bit of background if you can assess as to who brought this resolution and what the sort of the which way that the debate is going. well so the debate actually has not really started yet there's been a little bit of a delay at the top of the security council meeting first the representatives of china and russia left the chamber followed shortly afterwards by the u.s. ambassador they now all back in the chamber and the meeting is about to begin but

it may be that there was some last minute hitches in terms of the deal we done to stood before the meeting that they had been agreement from russia and china to these proposals in the resolution made by the united states which substantially tightens sanctions on north korea both russia and china have been unwilling in the past to introduce further sanctions without the sanctions already in place being properly implemented russia and china also want a much stronger political track than what we are seeing at present but it does appear that there's last minute talks well we're not quite sure what that will result in but we are expecting a vote pretty soon in this meeting and we we know there are already extensive sanctions on north korea what sort of impact do you think this extra one will have on then. well this is a bit of a ramping up basically it's cutting north korea's refined fuel imports by some

seventy five percent it's a very significant reduction it leaves the crude oil imports capped at some four billion barrels a year but importantly to its tightened the maritime interdiction of cargo ship suspected to be smuggling oil to north korea it's also introduced as its freeze and travel ban on nineteen individuals most of whom are understood to work for korean banks as well as entity and that is the national army of north korea so all these sanctions together are very much a tightening the end result we are told by the british ambassador on his way in is to get the go see asians going the idea is to squeeze north korea as tightly as possible to reduce its income reduce its revenues and in that way hopefully drive it to the negotiating table and also for it to stop its missile development process

many thanks michaela that with the latest from the united nations. south sudan's government and opposition forces have signed a cease fire deal allowing humanitarian access to civilians the dail agreed after talks in ethiopia and capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to in the four year long conflict that use comes into effect on sunday which is christmas eve it aims to revive a twenty fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in south sudan's capital juba. although four million people have been displaced in south sudan's conflict creating the world's fastest growing refugee crisis hundreds of thousands have fled to northern kenya katherine sawyer reports from a refugee camp in calcutta. mall of south sudan's displaced people have made their way to this transit center in nothing kenya with that's really nothing to call their own helen arrived recently both her husband and brother were killed in

the fighting she now has to take care of her brother's eight children as well as five of her own she has a family back home a good lunch she tells us a moment i'm going out on the line and it's very hard for me i'm the only person now to take care of these children i don't know whether peace will come or not i'm not hopeful any more there are about a thousand refugees in this reception center all have arrived in the last few weeks this year alone more than twenty two thousand mostly from south sudan have come for help the comp is already hosting close to two hundred thousand. been given talk that will enable them to get space in the constable top shelters will soon meet their new neighbors some of whom have been in since another civil war with the north but ended twelve years ago. people like par peter he's a head teacher and those schools have closed he wants to ensure the library he students

enjoy is ready for when they return he escaped in two thousand and four to avoid being recruited as a child soldier the very reason many boys he stitching now have fled south sudan and he knows exactly who to blame the president and his former vice president whose forces are fighting each other. so. yes. someone is poured into. his country. and this is one of khan's students who run thuck eighteen years old but still in primary school. he's talking to his aunt who's at a comp for displaced people. home he's not seen ha his mother or four sisters since he left three years ago. but i'm fine. with.

the region both. and i'm young going on from what i'm learning her south sudan has been in conflict for four years it's one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world attempts at peace all the seen by regional mediators have often filled and with no end in sight this refugees continue to wait out a crisis they say has destroyed their lives catherine soy al jazeera. and nothing to kenya. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour. we look at the state of syria's civil war one year after rebel fighters in aleppo by the last ound. evacuated refugees from overcrowded islands but thousands remain trapped in squalid conditions and in sport it's a second success in as many days for this it will have more on that later on.

hello i'm not sure it's quite nice to feel it's warmer it should be which has been the case levant in turkey recently this cloud that stream you have you see where it comes from the south or southwest the wind under the seat has been doing this for days so we've got a temperature regime which despite the scars being rolled in the white. the temp has gone up twenty five in beirut seventeen in aleppo twenty four in baghdad another reason these are all several degrees above the average this time you know what is it will change things turkey season winter weather comes through aleppo first feeling of chill starts to rain in northern syria snow up in the mountains of turkey but the warmth does spread further east herons a lot warmer in the forecast i don't but even kuwait city these are cloudy skies

not wet skies it's just the wind direction making the difference as it will do the next day or so increasingly in northern riyadh give twenty nine is a nice warm twenty six in their home that's the most unusual part of the weather in arabian peninsula otherwise it's doing what he should do. done through tropical to southern africa this carrico wet season this summer and summer showers have been fifty sixty millimeter showers in cozumel in the tao but there once again drifting away to give a dry picture for saturday. in two thousand and one. spreads around the world to. arab australians accused of being enemies within. and attacking the aussie way of life we were treated like we would suspects we would all under suspicion struggling to adapt to their new found home. al-jazeera excuse the history of the lebanese community in australia. once

upon a time in punchbowl and this time on al-jazeera when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expecting to hear by announcing my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullies my life when people need to be heard a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of rolled in just have fled ethnic cleansing imeem are for bangladesh al jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online.

welcome back our mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera president mike for the boss says his country won't accept another u.s. tax peace plan after the u.n. rejected president chung's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital honest prime minister mariano rajoy has rejected an offer to meet ousted catalan president bush tomorrow to discuss catalonia as political crisis the region again backed independence from spain stay snap elections. and the united nations has unanimously back new sanctions on north korea bans nearly ninety percent of rich. finds petroleum product exports to pyongyang. first president has survived an impeachment vote in congress over corruption allegations pedro pablo kaczynski is accused of receiving illegal payments from the brazilian construction giant oh depressed mariana sanchez reports from lima. they are just an unprecedented outcome

it is precedent. held onto his job nearly a week a time majority of legislators passed a motion to impeach him when it came to the vote congress failed to get the necessary numbers to oust him. flanked by his lawyer could be faced congress he said with the conviction of his innocence and the intention to show it. come today at your request ready to defend myself against of false and all minnesota accusations that can only be understood in the context of an unconstitutional desire to separate me from power. the congressional majority accuse the seventy nine year old of being part of the largest corruption scandal in latin america they said he lied about receiving payments from brazilian giant other but it's money the company and the president say are legal but the political opposition didn't believe him. mr kaczynski as lawyers turned out to be

state lawyers and that all the evidence that who's in charge of the presidency is not in capacity to continue serving as president yes. in a thirty minute address to congress who cheese key said he's never received a bribe that he's honest and transparent his supporters said legislators didn't give him enough time to prove his innocence. and that the president hasn't had a chance to defend himself not even the worst criminals are treated like the president being treated analysts at the impeachment put at stake not only the presidency but the muck received in the country. outside congress demonstrator said they were afraid this was a coup in the making work it gave him what he thought more the fujimori party wants to control the government like in the past years and do whatever they want and we won't accept this because if i. against dictatorship has been hard. critics said

legislators try to remove the proceeded without clear evidence of a crime waiting for final results of the so-called carwash investigation now kaczynski says it's time for a new phase for reconciliation to start by the end i signed just. fled between separatist protesters on place in india and administers kashmir the fighting in regional capital srinagar took place during a demonstration against the killing of three civilians and leave this week they say the victims were course in the crossfire during an army operation protesters dispute that claim saying the civilians were deliberately targeted the battle for the syrian city of aleppo began in twenty twelve fighting and then one year ago when pro-government forces took control of the entire city and forced the rebels to surrender and withdraw but the government's victory has done little to put syria on the road to peace so i know how the reports. thousands were made homeless civilians

fighters activists opponents of the government who were forced to leave aleppo city these syrians now live in rebel controlled province their suffering isn't over. and we always thought that aleppo was roused but we were forced to live they took it now we're living a very difficult life and no one is helping us. it's been a year since the battle for aleppo came to and the opposition surrendered its last stronghold people were under siege for months or trapped in a war zone the choice they had was to die or leave their home. the home of the most difficult moment was when i stepped onto the bus and said goodbye to my sitting i felt that i lost the part of me or hated the world. omar halliday didn't just lose his home aleppo was the heart of their revolution young men like how to be were hopeful when the rebels captured the east of the city of

two thousand and twelve. as a journalist who documented the conflict that followed now he says the years of sacrifices amounted to nothing. they killed our families how can i return to an area under their control i would rather die elsewhere just as long as it is in liberated territory it's. pro-government forces always stressed the importance of the fight thousands of troops were used in the final push. for the capital damascus and love to hear that young boy who ever and the regime can. of both the. unity of. aleppo wasn't just another battle it changed the balance of power of the government paper and gave it political leverage. it was a strategic game for the syrian government since that it has shown no sign that it

is ready to compromise or share power with its opponents was where the so-called moderate rebels made their last stand in the north their defeat weakened their voice in any political settlement. losing aleppo was for many of the opposition the beginning of their and. so. it is the end of the revolution for me we left humiliated we used to live in dignity i can never go back because i am wanted by the regime and they will kill me. or the government december twenty two marks aleppo's liberation and the beginning of the end of the war the opposition doesn't see it that way for them just like much of their country no longer belongs to them . beirut. i saw has released footage of what it says is the launch of a. helicopter carrying egypt's defense and interior minister the to officials were

on an unannounced visit to the north of sinai last wednesday i saw. another helicopter that was part of their own a spokesman for the egyptian armed forces the death of an officer in an attack on the. last week egyptian security forces have been fighting i saw militants in the sinai. the un's refugee agency zoning urging greece to move faster to move asylum seekers from overcrowded camps on the engine islands before winter conditions deteriorate further the camis were built to receive five and a half thousand people but they currently house twice that number even after thousands were moved out in the past month john psaropoulos reports from the island of some us. osama has waited for this moment for five months but as he finally boards a ferry for athens and a future far from his native palestine he almost seems to regret it he's one of one

hundred ten refugees sailing for the mainland many have been here longer omar came here fourteen months ago after i saw the fighters destroyed his house in mosul it's like a dream for everyone here because they spent long time i learned they weren't allowed to leave until they finish their procedures so i takes time sometimes but you know they feel like they are really free when they got the audience under the e.u. turkey agreement refugees arriving on greece's eastern region islands have to stay there until their asylum case is a hood but the government may move people with disabilities families children and single women. that leaves a lot of single men behind for them boredom and overcrowding create a toxic mix some us volunteers a self organizing group raised money to create a day center for them here refugees can feel human relax socialize learn languages

and burnish their resumes in english and soon they'll be able to wash their clothes just face in the can be so very narrow in there's no space where someone can do any anything physically any activity so having a place like this really takes their mind away from from all the tension and having as there the government has offered to build a second camp here but officials in some most like on the other islands have refused so the existing camp built for seven hundred currently hosts fifteen hundred half of them are women and children there's a scarcity of medicine clothes water and hygiene but things were even worse before the evacuation until the beginning of december this terrorist all of grove was a tent city. some seven hundred people lived trenches dug around the tents in an effort to divert rainwater a still visible the government's concerted push to shelter refugees ahead of the deep winter means that the most vulnerable populations have now been moved to the

mainland more people arrive each week the difficulty of reaching athens sends them a message that europe is lifting the drawbridge to war torn lands and that this millennia old migration route across the aegean may in future have fewer happy endings jumps at all plus. he writes what chast condemned the imprisonment of al jazeera journalists saying it's now been more than a year since he was arrested and jailed in egypt and i say shin senses detention shows egypt's deep rooted intolerance for free expression. is accused of broadcasting false news just by chaos and al-jazeera strongly deny he has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. a class action lawsuit has been filed in the us against tech giant apple after it up better to deliberately slowing down old i phones critics argue it's a tactic to force customers to buy new devices challah ballasts reports. ten years

eventful life phones and in mr may should one point two billion songs the i thought has become a household name but when the i phone eight released in september customers complained the old phone slowdown in the next three months google searches for the keywords i phone slow jumped about fifty percent users speculated apple had slowed the phones to push them to upgrade on wednesday ethel admitted it has deliberately slowed old i phones explaining that as i phone batteries age and degrade they can overload and unexpectedly shut down slowing the phones if the company stops the overloading it affects the i phone six success and seven models our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices last year we released

a feature to smooth out the instantaneous current paychecks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down it was a perfectly legitimate software fix but the problem was they didn't tell anybody they do have a stunningly good reputation for many things but open this isn't really one of them in the torricelli secretive and then the court action began to law students in california filed a class action lawsuit then people from four different states filed in a chicago court more are expected they say they may have a can seem to allow apple to slow their i phones and the demanding replacement phones and compensation if a nationwide class action gets the go ahead would apply to. all people in the u.s. with i phones older than an eight if you have software floors and try and avoid them and all those things then security researchers like the one who found this and . will find it and they will publicize it and this already

a lawsuit in the states you know this is within a day of it being confirmed and i'm sure there will be others around the world the i phone is estimated to be the most profitable piece of technology to hit the market if apple continues to benefit it may depend on whether they come out of this saga unscathed shallop bellus al jazeera. michael is a reporter for the wall street journal who specializes on covering apple and joins me via skype from san francisco thanks very much for coming on al-jazeera i mean is there really a case against apple for this would that not bring down the whole company if we all go along and say i want compensation because i upgraded. the market for. you are many of them amount to not very much you know quite high so it was a time when what. so if it does go ahead we're looking at

a number i think of lawsuits across the united states is that right all that joining together in a class action. again very early days very early days i think i'd be premature to russia any conclusion that this is going to create a huge problem we've seen lawsuits like this in other industries in the past you know and and the out on the street for example there was a suite of class action lawsuits that were filed over what people deemed to be misleading marketing around the tito's handmade vodka label for example and it's going on for several years and many of those cases been resolved and those that have been resolved were found in favor of the company not in favor of the place that allows people to get quite angry that these upgrades do happen because it does amount with an awful lot of of i trash if you like have some things just thrown away for the best to model and in this day and age when we're concerned about that

much rubbish and recycling and such it is not such a great thing for apple to have that at their door i think there's been concern about the possibility that apple build products for planned obsolescence that spin an overarching concern about apple and other technology companies for years and this is an example that really feeds into that narrative and that concept and that's why it struck such a chord with people around the world is it damaging to the brand the whole though i mean this kind of lawsuit as you say only days it might come to nothing not be a flash in the pan but this whole sort of snipes at this enormous company and company good for the brand. apple is a very divisive company it's one that there are a tremendous amount of people who do have strong feelings about positively and a tremendous amount of people have deep skepticism about and this this plays right into that so it all depends on which side of the aisle you sit on if you're

a fan of apple is this going to damage your perception of the brand no you're going to look at it and you're going to say this is apple taking care and concern on behalf of customers and improving the performance of the device by preventing it from shutting down now if you're on the other side of the aisle you're going to say yes but my device is slowing down and it's weakening the performance of my device and it's making me feel like i have to go buy a new or the apple is actually doing me a disservice it really depends on which side of the side of the aisle you find yourself both a office full of problems technical things very much for joining us and i was there thank so much for having me. the baby jesus stepping on the bed a bullet shells the controversial take on the nativity scene put together by a group of catholic monks and it's really it's the latest in a long line of provocativeness it's designed to franciscan monastery. and it's highlighting will's life suffering each of the four hundred forty five shells represents a roman catholic who was killed for the faith to see

a two thousand and two years ago the monks made the crib from the remains of a boat that carried refugees across the mediterranean. between. russia. and just ahead a fifteen year old. british

foreign secretary boris johnson says there is an abundant evidence of russian interference in elections across europe and the us johnson made the accusations jaring talks in moscow with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov denied the allegations and demanded proof that russia and being involved in election meddling . i think it's very very important that. you should recognize that russian attempts to interfere in our elections around reference whatever they may have been have not been successful so you can reassure yourself on that point and that's an important consideration because i think he had been successful and that would be an entirely different matter time has bought is now his peter so you thank you very much saudi arabia have beaten hosts and tame times

gulf cup when it's kuwait in the opening match of the twenty seventeen edition this was kuwait's first international match since twenty fifteen when they were banned by fever for political interference in the country's football association saudi arabia took advantage of that as they went from one mil up inside thirty minutes the visitors made it to no shortly after the break kuwait got a consolation goal in the sixtieth minute but two one would be how it ended meaning the saudis have the early advantage in group a. in the english premier league liverpool will look to continue their following defending form when they take on also in about an hour's time but all their little pool have conceded just four goals in nine games manager you're going plop is still taking a cautious approach i don't know if there will be a lot of goals again but. we go there to to perform we go there to to get as much as we can and. we know that difficult but in this moment i feel as well that it's

possible and i think we should try. over in spain the countdown is on to one of the biggest games in club football with barcelona and real madrid preparing to do battle in al classico it's estimated six hundred fifty million people in one hundred eighty countries watched their last league encounter and with this one kicking a little bit earlier all fared to twelve g.m.t. on saturday the spanish league is hoping to better that heading into the two hundred fifty sixth edition of the fixture on the pitch the pressure is well and truly on rio they currently sit just fourth in the league a standings and trail leaders bossa by eleven points the clash also pits two of the world's best footballers against each other christiane or another has struggled to find his form in the league this season he is native just four times. as scored fourteen legals for boss and they are unbeaten in twenty four games in all competitions. momenta there's a lot initialism aspiration but it's a very important game and what we want is to seize that moment and play

a good game we know how difficult it will be because we're playing a very powerful team but we'll see what we have to play it to what i mean to is. most likely it's going to be the hardest game of the season because both teams barcelona and madrid are very beautiful teams and create difficult games but that is what we want the players to enjoy to play this kind of game. with less than fifty days to go until the pyong china lympics canadian skier mikhail kingsbury looks like he might be one of those to beat on the slopes the twenty five year old has continued to dominate in the freestyle skiing moguls when he second race in as many days in china and according he's tenth consecutive world cup win in the discipline he now leads the overall standings by one hundred forty points the women's event was won by kazakhstan's usually. the next moguls contest of the season is in canada in january. meanwhile in the freestyle skiing halfpipe event

also taking place in china there was a debut world cup victory for local favorite zhang k. sheen she's just fifteen years old that means event was won by a thomas clive frenchman and securing his first podium finish in all than two years . to former south american football officials have been convicted of corruption charges in new york jersey maria marion of brazil and one coal not board of paraguayan the two men in question they've been convicted on record tearing conspiracy. we're joined now by a reporter gabriel elizondo who is in new york cable thank you for joining us how expected was this outcome. listen i don't think anyone knew what the outcome was going to be before the jury delivered their verdicts on two of the people here but i can tell you this was definitely a very complex case that lasted over a month here at this federal courthouse in new york jurors deliberated for six days before they were able to deliver their verdict on two people that you just

mentioned and just to give you an idea of how complex it was there were many charges that were presented during this trial. one until now put the former head of the south american football federation charged with three of five found guilty of three of the five charges against him and then the brazilian of course the former head of the c.b.s. for brazilian football federation very powerful man eighty five year old she was a mighty mit and found guilty of six of the seven charges against him so it just gives you an idea that the state or the government i should say through a lot out there they had a lot of evidence thousands of pages of documents that they presented during this including a flight records bank records from various different countries they relied on investigative officials from other countries as well all presented here over the last month but the headline i can tell you is that two of these three very powerful very powerful football officials in world football. found mostly guilty not

completely but found mostly guilty of all the charges that state presented against them gabriel can you briefly explain to our viewers what brought this about so this trial about in the first place. we all remember it was two years ago that early morning raid at that hotel in switzerland we all remember that video of that that was alternately the. investigators here in the u.s. that opened up this case looking into not only of these officials over forty different officials were charged in world football linking it to feed a half of the forty pled guilty and now these are the main three that were on trial here the key ones here on trial in new york. all right we'll leave it there gabriel elizondo thank you so much and that is also all the sports news from now expect to see in london thank you peter now the number seven one one nine eight smite not mean much to most of us but it's made some lucky people in spain almost half

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